Posted on 04/09/2022 4:26:11 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Black and Hispanic Americans are paying extra money to secure rental housing in the U.S. compared with Whites, according to Zillow.
In a report this week, the real estate data firm said that, regardless of race, Americans paid an average of $700 in security deposits when renting an apartment. Yet renters of color paid $750 while White renters paid $600. White renters typically paid $50 for a rental application fee while Black Americans paid $65; Hispanic applicants paid $80 and Asian Americans paid $10. People of color also typically must submit more rental applications in order to find a place to live as well as pay more in related fees than white renters, Zillow concluded.
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POC live in more urban environments where everything is more expensive.
Oh BS
A steaming pile. Just as authentic as “climate change”.
Oh BS
A steaming pile. Just as authentic as “climate change”.
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Or wymyn make .76 cents on the dollar as men
Why on $10 for asians? Author goes out of their way to point out a small difference in white people but ignores the glaring difference between black people and asians.
More anti-Asian hate from the Left.
Every rental contract I’ve seen was a standard one. I’ve NEVER had an apartment owner say, “You’re white? Well, I’ll give YOU a discount!” And where I live, you can find apartment prices on the Internet. Same with house prices. Don’t think the Internet knows if I am white or black.
There are more minorities renting government subsidized Section 8 housing. These landlords charge more for security deposits and tenant screening for obvious reasons. FWIW, my son just submitted a rental application and they charged him $100 and they want a $1000 security deposit.
They also have worse credit scores
Before I could believe this, I what to see the raw data, The sampling size, and the distribution of the satiistical analysis, and what was considered to be the raw ethic break down.
Next who were the PHDs or analyst who did the work.
Then most important who paid for the work to be done.
Always follow the money to find out how much bias is needed to get paired for the work
The only way a landlord could possibly know or suspect an applicant’s skin color is by their name. Nobody personally returns a rental application these days. It’s all done online. And the application cost is clearly stated on the listing.
Seriously BS. Everything is racists.
Yeah, I’m not buying this BS.
I know! I know!
Let’s compare apples to oranges and then shout racism!
My apologies for my fat fingered spelling and not checking my own work. Typing fast on a cell phone is just as bad as trying to read a MSM journalist’s news piece.
BS is right when CBS is reporting this.
did zillow miss that part about the asians??
I hate autocorrect most days
There’s a lot more white renters than black renters...black citizens comprise only 12% of the population...and whites are more widely distributed.
Many black renters live in urban areas where the rents are notoriously high, although many of them in these areas also live in subsidized housing where they pay much less. However, even these rentals are adjusted for local costs.
Many white renters live in lower-cost small-city or rural areas.
I don’t think this study is particularly meaningful.
I will say that once years ago...in liberal San Francisco...I was at a rental agency and saw a black couple with a much higher income than ours being brought a book with a different color binding. I remember this because the agent said to the clerk who brought the couple a green book (obviously better), “No, no, the red book,” which the clerk then brought out.
The apartments in there were the same ones we saw although they were a professional couple. We had virtually no income and wanted to rent anything we could afford, while they definitely had the money to rent a nice place but weren’t being shown any nice places. We bumped into them in one particularly grungy apartment and the wife and I were talking about what we’d been shown.
I was so upset later that I called some SF housing discrimination hotline and reported this...and then I got harassing calls from the realtor. However, I wasn’t the only one who had complained, and about two years later she was found guilty of steering and a host of other RE crimes.
So discrimination does happen, but I think this general statistic is meaningless.
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